Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

The joy of the Lord is our strength.

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.

I've been fighting my whole life.

My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero.